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PLOW

No. 471.922. Patented Mar; 29

HENRY e. wEBB, on LAFAYETTE, ALABAMA.

PLOW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of LettersPatent No. 471,922, dated March 29, 1892.

Application filed December 12, 1891- Serial No. 414.873. (No model.)

.To all whom t may concern.-

Beit known that I, HENRY G. WEBB, acitizen of the United States, residing` at Lafayette, in the county of Chambers and State of Alabama, have invented a new and useful Plow, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to.improvements in plows; and the objects in view are to provide a suitable, cheap, and convenient attachment to be applied to an ordinary plow-beam, and to thus convert the same into a double or single foot plow, a barrow, or a combination of plow and harrow forlisting, breaking ground, harrowing, dac.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear in the following description, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure lis a perspective of a plow beam or stock provided with an attachment constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail in perspective of the rear plow-supporting arm, the same being shown provided with barrow-teeth. Fig. 3 is a similarl view of the front plow-supporting arm, the same being provided with barrow-teeth. Fig. 4 is a detail of that form of harrow-tooth employed in relation to the rear plow-supporting arm. Fig. 5 is a detail in perspective of one of the plow-standards.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

l designates an ordinary plow stock or beam provided at its rear end with the usual handles 2, from which -stock the ordinary plow standard or foot has been removed. The stock has been provided at intervals with pairs of perforations or bolt-openings, and to the opposite sides of the beam there are bolted pairs of front and rear laterally-disposed arms 3 and 4, respectively. The arms 3 have their inner ends terminating in oppositelydisposed securing lugs or ears 5, through which bolts 5n are passed into the plow beam or stock, and their outer ends are rearwardly bent to form securing-plates 6, having perforations and at opposite edges iianges. Between its ends each arm is provided with a series of perforations and connected to the rear side of the arm in an adjustable and re- 14, which are bolted, as at 15, to the opposite j sides of the plow stock or beam. Each arm is provided with a series of perforations 16,

any two of which may be occupied by bolts 17 for the purpose of securing in an adjustable and removable manner a depending T-- shaped lug 1S to the under side of the arm.

19 designates a compoundly-curved plowstandard, two of which are employed, each being bifurcated to a point near its lower end or foot, and to said lower ends shovels 2O are secured. At its front upturued end each standard is perforated, as at 11, and is adj ustably connected to the rearwardlydisposed T-shaped fastening of the front arm by means of a bolt 11a. At its rear angle the standard receives the rear depending T- shaped fastening 18 of the rear arm, by which it is pivoted to said rear arm. It will be apparent the two plows thus constructed may be adjusted toward or away from each other by locating the fastenings of each pair of arms in the various openings thereof, and, furthermore, that by adjusting the front ends of the plow-standards the shovels may be raised and lowered and adapted forany depth of penetration. By setting the arms at one side of the beam in advance of the other the two plows will be similarly located with relation to each other-that is, one advanced in front of the other. To the opposite sides of the plow-beam, at the outer ends of the rear arms 4, there are bolted, as at 27, inclined braces 23, the upper ends of which are bolted to the opposite plow-handles. Opposite braces 25, terminating at their rear ends`in loops 26, take over the outer ends of the rear arms 4, are bolted thereto by the boltsv 27, before mentioned, extend forwardly, and lie between the flanges of the securing-plates 6 of the front arms 3, are bolted, as at 29, to the same, are brought around in front of the arms 3, are converged, and bolted, as at 30, to the opposite sides of the beam. The T-shaped lugs of the front arms 3 may be removed and ordinary barrow-teeth l2 substituted for the same, the teeth being secured to the arms by means of embracing staples 13. In a like manner by U-shaped staples 22, passed up- IOO wardly through the rear arms 4, a series of inverted- L-shaped barrow-teeth 2l may be attached.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that the arms or attachments may be adjusted at various points along the beam, and that the attachments may be applied to any ordinary plow stock or beam, whether form ed of wood or iron, without injury to the same or an interference with the replacing of the former parts after the removal of my attachments, though, if desired, the attachment may be manufactured with stocks. It will also be seen that the plows may be thus employed in connection with each other or one maybe removed and employed in connection with the barrow-teeth located at the opposite side of the beam.

`Having described my invention, what I claim is- 1;The herein described attachment for` plows, the same consisting of a pair of trans-` versely-disposed arms the inner ends of which are adapted to be secured to a plow-beam,`

having its front end provided with adjustingperforations and embracing and adj ustably bolted to the T- shaped lug of the front arm, substantially as specified. l

2. The combination, with the plow-beam having the handles, of the opposite pair of front and rear perforated arms terminating at their inner ends in securing-plates bolted to the beam, the front arms having their outer ends rearwardly disposed and terminating in flanged perforated securing-plates, T-shaped lugs secured to the arms, those of the front arms being rearwardly extended and those of the rear arms downwardly extended, a com poundly-cu rved bifurcated plow-standard having its front end perforated or provided with adjusting-holes, bolts for securing the plow-standards at their front and rear ends to said T- shaped fastenings, opposite braces terminating at their rear ends in eyes receiving the outer ends of the rear arms, resting in the securing-plates of the front arms and bolted thereto and having their front ends inwardly disposed and boltedto the beam, and the inclined braces bolted to the opposite handles and at their lower ends to the outer ends of the rear arms, substantially as specified.

In testimony thatI claim theforegoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature/,in the presence of two witnesses.V

HENRY G. WEBB.

lVitnesses:

A. J. DRIVER, Jr., J. B. DUKE. 

